Unique new protection for your clients – simple, affordable and quick
Friendly Shield provides short-term essential protection against unexpected accidents.
It is designed to provide a number of valuable protection benefits including an income benefit, fracture cover, hospitalisation benefit and both natural and accidental death benefit, plus a rehabilitation benefit to help your clients get back to work sooner following an accident.
Friendly Shield is simpler than other protection products on the market. It’s quick to apply for and quick to benefit from.
For clients aged 18-60. Your client can choose from 3 levels of cover from just 33p a day - bronze £10, silver £17 and gold £24.
Hospital cash: a cash benefit of £50 per night for any covered accidents for up to 360 days.
Fracture cover: a lump sum benefit for fractures of bones up to £3,000.
Income benefit: short term accident only income protection up to £2,250 per month for up to 3 months.
Accidental death benefit: a lump sum payable on accidental death up to £85,000.
Natural death benefit: a lump sum payable on any cause of death of £2,500 after a 2-year qualifying period.
Friendly GP: 24/7 access to a virtual GP for the whole family as standard.
Rehabilitation benefit: a payment of up to £1,000 providing access to private facilities covering physical therapies i.e. acupuncture, physiotherapy, osteopathy and chiropractic treatment, follow-up scans and tests and consultations.
Optional cover for spouse and children.
| Bronze | Silver | Gold | |||
| Premium | £10 | £17 | £24 | ||
| Income benefit | £750 | £1,500 | £2,250 | ||
| Fracture cover | £1,000 | £2,000 | £3,000 | ||
| Hospital cash (£50 per night) - maximum overnight stays in any policy year) | £3,000 |
£9,000 |
£18,000 |
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| Accidental death | £45,000 | £85,000 | £85,000 | ||
| Natural death | £2,500 | ||||
| Rehabilitation benefit | Up to £1,000 in any policy year for all levels | ||||
| Friendly GP for the whole family | Included as part of core cover from policy opening Access to a Private GP any time day or night |
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Our virtual GP service, Friendly GP, is a free added benefit to your clients’ policy which can be accessed over the phone or online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This means your clients always have easy access to a doctor when they need help.
Our Friendly GP service provides your client with peace of mind that they can access a GP for themselves and their family at any time, day or night.
Our members have rated the service:
for the overall experience they received as excellent, very good or good.
agreed they would recommend Friendly GP to a friend or colleague.
rated the helpline as 5 stars or 4 stars.
Data taken from reviews between January and May 2024.
To apply your client needs to be:
No, we won’t ask any medical or health related questions, which makes the application quick and simple, and acceptance is guaranteed regardless of medical history.
The different types of benefit have different waiting periods. Please see the Policy Conditions or Policy Summary for more details.
Yes, your client can claim more than one benefit at a time. For example a leg fracture might necessitate an emergency hospital visit, qualify for fracture benefit and result in a claim because they cannot work for more than 14 days.
We cover a wide list of occupations but there are some we aren’t able to offer cover for.
To find out if we’ll be able to cover your client’s job, you can use our online quote tool if you have a login or give us a call on 0333 014 6244 and we can check for you.
Your client, and their family, has free access to our virtual GP service. It’s called Friendly GP and it can be accessed over the phone or online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We’ll give the full details on how they can access it when they take out a policy or they can go to our Existing Members page to find out more.
If there’s anything else you want to know, please give us a call on 0333 014 6244 and we’ll be happy to help.
8am to 6pm Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. Calls are recorded for training and quality purposes. Calls from UK landlines and mobiles cost no more than a call to a 01 or 02 number and will count towards any inclusive minutes.
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